Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-04-09
ACUOMAO e. H. Va SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1851

-EIdhinlI lean insure you courteous
aniseonsiderate treatment on the
EpaI.tlo of every one in this Office. II
sushsis not accorded yon, yon have
ontys;to inform me. and l will know
:.|.thslreason Why"
lyon are very kind.n said Miss
AMfer. with a bright, fleeing
4 Smile. 81 should like to stay. l
t reilly cannot afford to resign my
pdsitton.''
EThen stay, By all MEANS" said
+R4;asDd
Z; And, to the edifcation of his
4 clsEss, he got up andsopened the
! d dsaatiorSher when she wentout.
fter that he often zcanght him.
! seIfiist enin e to- The SOFT Fetsdis-
4 tiiiEssS ID nother rooms oldLS
.linaco oiils yerst le 9 phone:
l 81 10 nle iii one
Of HIS al taslss efs HenIat II e and had
4 toes nm 1ss sesYis
rs iSs offtteTls 0MWell!II
:AEnonld Sh earn iiiss "a TchaF' ices
WI an tho Sot Tier, s eb bed way
Ikea Babe lsof so lnd IL ,:- .;:4.;
SsBnrnstlid Id adsi esthing wilen she.
gosthat girl I'm the Office, he mnsed
ons Whenshe Skeptla pyis
onsssr very iinopportlnely. 81 don't
knew what we'd do without her
noR; especially. It's bad enough as
Its. Icouldn't have had this at
taGk alta worse time. But guess
everything is all right. Panbnry's
good for any amount this side of 4
million. By Jove, though, it would
E.barough on me if anything went
wrong nowl 1t would clean me out
completely"
He was walking upand down the
room, trying torepress the nervous
agitation which attacked him.
stSeven o'clock!n be said, glanc-
ing9 at. the time. "The Office is
closed long ago. In another honr
BEisket will sign over those bonds,
and then-Hello! what's that!"
THE shrill alarm of the telephone
summoned him across the room.
aThere is no one at the office"
hethought, taking ~, the receiver.
sIswonder what's up now7 Hello!
Wayne! Who are you7"
sItis Helen Archer, MIR. Wayne"
said a voice, which he knew quite
we'll.
:sAVhy, what are you doing in
,thesoffice at this time of nightly he
exclaimed involuntarily.
am not at the oilice-tiat is,
notat your Office. am at the
Central station. Can you hear
mef7
dYes.''
have something important to
tehsyou. Our wire got crossed with
MFsBrisket,s to-day, and could
.hear; eyery word said over it. [
coIld mot understand what they
:Weaestalkipg about, only Mr.. Bris-
Danbury.o
s.Danbury" exclaimed Wayne,
in great excitement.
"They we're talking about bonds,
and said a lot OF things l couldn f
comprehend; but at last your name
was mentioned. This will put
Wayne in hole Mr. Brisket said.
Yes, said Dir. Danbury, 'it'll bury
him alive. 1t is a good thing he's
shelved tonight. There is 10 dam
ger, / suppose, of his getting wind
of this before o'clock7" NO dan
ger at all, said Brisket, 'ifyou don't
go back on me. There will be a
new deal allaround, and we'll boost
The market over Wayne's head.'
Do you hear what l saya" she in
terrupted.
"Yes. .yesw Wayne said, excited
ly. sWhat else7"
"Nothing more that could un-
derstand, except that they we're to
meet at the Continental hotel to-
night at s o'clock. / came here
because I was afraid to talk from
the Office. [ thought some one
might get on our wire, and I have
you here direct. That's all. Good
by"
For Roland Wayne to dress and
leave the house was matter OF a
very short time after he had re
ceived the message from Helen
Archer. His illness and the dan
ger Of exposure were quite forgot
ten.
He was present, very unexpect
edly to Mr.. Brlsket and MIR. Dan
bury, at the evening conference at
the.h0tel.
TWAS storm scene that ensued
between Roland Wayne and these
tm @ men who had com bined against
.him-a scene from which the young
broker issued pale.with exhaustion
but still triumphant.
What had passed no one knew,
but Che next day the street was
electrified by the news that Wayne
was closing up his affairs TO go
abroad.
..Thatwill throw us all out" said
Burns gloomily, and Helen Archer
heard tile news with a sinking
heart.
She was late that night going
home, having some small errands-
to attend to on her way; and, more
over, her steps Jagged with the
consciousness that she had bad